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Ludwig Mies van der Rohe - From the Architecture category:
Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins. (Ludwig Mies van der Rohe)
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe - From the Architecture category:
Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space. (Ludwig Mies van der Rohe)
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe - From the Construction category:
Where can we find greater structural clarity than in the wooden buildings of the old? Where else can we find such unity of material, construction and form? Here the wisdom of whole generations is stored. (Ludwig Mies van der Rohe)
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe - From the Design category:
No design is possible until the materials with which you design are completely understood. (Ludwig Mies van der Rohe)
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe - From the Desire category:
I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good. (Ludwig Mies van der Rohe)
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe - From the Education category:
True education is concerned not only with practical goals but also with values. Our aims assure of us of our material life, our values make possible our spiritual life. (Ludwig Mies van der Rohe)
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe - From the Goals category:
The long path from material through function to creative work has only one goal: to create order out of the desperate confusion of our time. (Ludwig Mies van der Rohe)
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe - From the Guidance category:
Let us guide our students over the road of discipline from materials, through function, to creative work. (Ludwig Mies van der Rohe)
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe - From the Materials category:
We must remember that everything depends on how we use a material, not on the material itself... New materials are not necessarily superior. Each material is only what we make it. (Ludwig Mies van der Rohe)
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe - From the Money category:
Means must be subsidiary to ends and to our desire for dignity and value. (Ludwig Mies van der Rohe)
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe - From the Money category:
Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last forty years on insurance premiums alone to buy a medium-sized castle in Tuscany. (Ludwig Mies van der Rohe)
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe - From the Order category:
We must have order, allocating to each thing its proper place and giving to each thing is due according to its nature. (Ludwig Mies van der Rohe)
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe - From the Originality category:
It is better to be good than to be original. (Ludwig Mies van der Rohe)
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe - From the Religion category:
God is in the details. (Ludwig Mies van der Rohe)
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe - From the Spirituality category:
...so we must become familiar with the psychological and spiritual factors of our day. No cultural activity is possible otherwise; for we are dependent on the spirit of our time. (Ludwig Mies van der Rohe)
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe - From the Subject category:
A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous. (Ludwig Mies van der Rohe)
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe - From the Teaching category:
If teaching has any purpose, it is to implant true insight and responsibility. Education must lead us from irresponsible opinion to true responsible judgement. It must lead us from chance and arbitrariness to rational clarity and intellectual order. (Ludwig Mies van der Rohe)
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